The Trotskyist is against Stalin just as the Communist is for him, and, like the majority of Communists, he wants not so much to alter the external world as to feel that the battle for prestige is going in his own favour.

The two best-known intellectual dissidents of the Polish movement of 1968, Jacek Kuron and Karel Modzelewski, both had "Trotskyist" pasts, and both went on to help form the KOR (Workers Defense Committee), which became the nucleus of Solidarnosc.

After some brief personal palaver-I like Paul even though I know he's alluded to me as a "Trotskyist" behind my back-McGuinness sheepishly said "Bono has asked me to ask you if he can withdraw" from the debate.